Ok, it's probably a bit premature, but I thought while we were all
happily bashing each others skins I might as well contribute a bit.
As Jason, I do (well, did) not have too much experience regarding
skinning, always gave it a wide berth. But since my skin of choice is
not very well maintained any more, I finally created my own. For this I
also used Daniels manual, which is excellent. So, kudos Daniel. Remind
me to get you a beer should we ever meet.
Since I am rather lazy and also have some more plans with this skin, I
utilized Twitter's Bootstrap framework which worked great. It allowed me
to throw it all together in a few evenings last week. No CSS tweaking
needed, thank you very much.
To do this I created two minimal extensions, one for the Bootstrap
framework itself[1], one for a php LESS compiler [2].
Out came a skin with horizontal menus with dropdowns/dropups for the
sidebar (above the article) and toolbar and language links (below).
Alas, I don't have a working wiki to show off, but have a look at the
screenshots at [0].
Next steps:
* Improve the Bootstrap extension to load stuff selectively
* clean up the skin code and refactor stuff into methods
* leverage Bootstrap and the less compiler to allow for changing the
appearance of the skin; e.g. the colors (Anybody wondered about the
name of the skin?)
Cheers,
Stephan
[0]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Chameleon
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bootstrap
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Less